Many aspects of your health and wellbeing are at risk of being negatively impacted if you suffer from foot problems, particularly if your foot problems compromise mobility and your ability to undertake activities of daily living.
Routine medical foot care can have a range of benefits including:
🦶 Enhances Quality of Life
🦶 Facilitates/Extends Independence
🦶 Improves Mobility
🦶 Decreases Risk of Falls - Regular Nursing Foot Care Can Help to Address and Prevent Foot Problems That Have Potential to Make You Unsteady on Your Feet That Puts You at a Risk For a Fall
🦶 Promotes Foot Health
🦶 Improves/Relieves Foot Ailments
🦶 Assists in Preventing Foot and Nail Infection
🦶 Contributes to Protecting Skin Integrity
🦶 Minimizes/Relieves Foot Pain and Discomfort - Painful Feet Can Impair Balance and Functional Ability
🦶 Improves Circulation
🦶 Reduces Foot Complications
🦶 Supports the Prevention of Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Foot Ulcers
🦶 Aids in the Prevention of Amputation of the Lower Extremity for At-Risk Clients Who Have (but not limited to) Factors Effecting Wound Healing, Diabetes, Neuropathy, Impaired or Altered Sensation, and/or Circulatory Disorders/Diseases
👣 Objective: With consideration of strengths and limitations, the client (and/or (if applicable) POAPC*/SDM*/caregiver) will be educated to be able to recognize and change risk behaviours, and to adopt or maintain healthy foot practices.
POAPC* = Power of Attorney for Personal Care
SDM*= Substitute Decision Maker